Combat System

Combat System

Audience: Engine Developer Status: ✍️ Draft

The combat loop: how fights start, how rounds resolve, how damage flows through a single uniform dealDamage path, and how death is a cancellable checkpoint. Combat is designed to be reproducible via zone-owned, seeded entropy.

Intended contents

• Combat entry: kill/assist/flee/consider; engagement and threat/eligibility tracking
• combat_profile_defs and damage_type_defs: the content-defined combat model (no hardcoded classes of damage)
• The round loop: initiative/timing within the zone tick; hit/damage resolution via the check primitive
• Uniform damage: the single dealDamage path; on_depleted as the cancellable death checkpoint (death-ward)
• Reproducibility: zone-owned entropy-seeded, injectable RNG (#58) — deterministic combat for tests
• Death, corpses, respawn, and the cross-respawn op-list guard; loot eligibility handoff to the loot resolver
• Classes/algorithms/APIs: combat controller, damage pipeline, RNG injection
• Mermaid: engage→round→resolve→death-checkpoint→loot sequence
• Cross-links: Abilities & Effects, Loot, Spawns & Crafting

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